[TheForge] Re: Fwd: "Modeling Dough"

[Mike Spencer]

> If I understand it correctly, modeling clay is dry clay mixed with oil.

I it was either Dimitri Gerakaris or Chris Ray who put me onto using
plasticine.  The art stores in Halifax looked at me as if I had two
heads when I asked for it.  (People at the NS Art College must order
from away or do without.  Huh.)

At a/the big art store in Boston, they said, "Yes, Sir.  Hard, medium
or soft?"  What they had was made in Italy.  I've used it in demos
when touting the plasticity of iron in the smith's hands or previewing
a lengthy process such as making a dragon head.  But I've found it
most useful to work out a difficult shape, such as a seed pod or
animal/beast head, to have a clearer idea of where I'm going with the
metal.

Seems to last forever although the surface may become hardened and
have to be scraped off of a lump stored for several years.

I did once try "pattern-welded plasticine" with multicolored kiddie
stuff.  It didn't really behave the same way welded metals do.

FWIW,
- Mike

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